I first met Dylan at a show that I was booking probably back in 2011.

Just checked my e-mail, and yes – it was 2011. And Dylan was weirdly e-mailing me from Spencer’s e-mail address. Have some boundaries, guys.

As a supporter of the DIY punk, hardcore, and metal scenes, I facilitated a subcultural event that involved doing a workout, playing extreme music, and feeding an apparently malnourished group of youths in Full of Hell some sort of enjoyable scramble of treats.

Since then, Full of Hell has gone on to become a force of nature. They blend grindcore, powerviolence, power electronics, and death metal in a totally cohesive (aka not post-modern jumbled mess) layered mess of aggression.

Full of Hell is an insane live band. Please observe:

And, if you favor such sounds, please also listen to their most recent album Trumpeting Ecstasy. I think it’s really wonderful.

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Check out Dylan and Full of Hell here:

• Website: Bandcamp
• Facebook: @fullofhell
• Instagram: @theevaultofheaven

Resources Mentioned

• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Cormac McCarthy – Child of God
• Steven Pinker – The Better Angels of Our Nature
• Neural responses to ingroup and outgroup members’ suffering predict individual differences in costly helping.
• Grateful Dead
• Bob Dylan
• Death
• Dying Fetus
• Morbid Angel
• Cryptopsy
• Bad Brains
• Entombed
• Insect Warfare
• Throwdown
• First Blood
• The Locust
• Daughters
• Cattle Decapitation
• Creation is Crucifixion
• Anal Cunt
• Taste the Steel
• All Out War
• 100 Demons
• Prurient
• Merzbow
• Some Kind of Monster
• Nails
• Jamie Saft & Merzbow – Merzdub
• The Endless Blockade
• Gas Chamber
• The Body
• Alkaline Trio
• US Maple
• Disciples of Christ
• Sissy Spacek
• Adam Smith – The Theory of Moral Sentiments
• Hate Force
• Gasp
• Despise You
• Code Orange
• Immolation
• Cavalera Conspiracy
• Sepultura – Roots
• Mixhell
• The Dillinger Escape Plan
• Pulling Teeth
• Noisem
• Arthur Rizk
• Cold World
• Inquisition
• Soulfly
• Werner Herzog clip from The Burden of Dreams
• Werner Herzog getting shot with a BB gun
• Werner Herzog on Rick & Morty
• Profound Lore Records
• Tim & Eric Totino’s Commerical
• Monster Energy Drink
• The Jasta Show

Show Notes

• [2:30] Mrs. Doubtfire
• [5:45] Traumatizing family pranks and recurring nightmares
• [10:00] Folklore and archetypal stories – and their relationship to evolved instincts
• [18:57] How Dylan got into extreme music – including punk parents and friends at school
• [23:12] First meeting Spencer and Full of Hell
• [30:19] In-group signaling behavior amongst extreme music subgenre fanatics
• [34:00] Full of Hell’s collaboration record with Merzbow
• [38:02] Gateway bands and introducing fans to your own taste
• [46:10] Regroup to discuss meeting Spencer and creating the current Full of Hell line-up
• [50:22] Full of Hell’s first tour – including show in Chicago with Like Rats and a CrossFit workout
• [53:25] Full of Hell’s creative vision: The harshness of the world and the coldness of human beings –
  and the weight of all suffering
• [1:02:32] Writing lyrics, writing vocal patterns, and making them a cohesive and integral part of the music
• [1:10:00] Stories from touring with Immolation and the Cavaleras
• [1:21:30] The creative process for the upcoming collaboration record with The Body